*Technically* there was a blocksize limit between 2010 and 2015, but it was clearly meant to be temporary. There was never supposed to be a limit on transactional capacity.
When the ethos of BTC, as well as the technical details, changed to disallow Bitcoin's main function (transcactional currency, aka 'cash'), it became incompatible with the whitepaper.
I would argue that in addition, true anonymity was clearly a goal; just one that was too complex to implement or even really fully grok in the "1.0 release"
I also love anonymity, but unfortunately it was never part of Bitcoin's original design and was not mentioned in the whitepaper. The 'cash' aspect very much was.
Which, of course, doesn't mean that we can't build anonymity on top of Bitcoin if we want to. CashFusion, for example.
... isn't the anonymity I'm looking for.
I want my balance to not be known to the entire Internet.
I don't want "opt-in privacy".
I don't want taint on my coins ... from washing them.
I agree that Bitcoin is a concept, and in principle it can apply to more than one chain. It's just that BTC, specifically, has very clearly renounced that concept.
Satoshi defined Bitcoin as a "A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System". That is the concept, the set of principles you referred to. The BTC people have flagrantly turned away from that.
